Rendering from Vegas to DVD Archiect

[Mike Kujbida]

MPEG-2 is the correct video format (and AC-3 for audio) but, for anything over (approx.) 70 min. you need to use a bitrate calculator to determine optimum settings.
Here’s a link to a free one from VideoHelp.
Once you determine the proper bitrate, you’ll need to adjust the bitrate by clicking the Custom button and adjusting the settings in the Video tab.

[John Ranta]

I was unclear in my question. The process that I am using today is:
1. Import and edit in Vegas.
2. Render out of Vegas as mpeg2.
3. Create a New Movie DVD in DVD Architect.
4. DVD Architect renders all over again.

The rendering process in Vegas in step 2 takes 2 hours. The rendering process in DVd Architect in step 4 takes 2 hours. What I’m hoping is that there’s a way to render out of Vegas just once so that DVD Arhcitect will just burn the rendered files, and not have to render again and waste 2 more hours.

Thanks, JR

[Mike Kujbida]

John, the reason that DVDA is rendering the file again is that what you gave it to work with is too large to fit on a standard DVD.
Thats why I recommend tyhe use of a bitrate calculator.
It will tell you what numbers to use for CBR or VBR settings from within Vegas to ensure that your files will not have to be re-rendered in DVDA.
I’ve got to get back to editing a project but, if you do a search in this forum for bitrate calculator and look for my name, you’ll get several suggestions on how to do this quite easily.

[John Ranta]

Ahhh, I missed your point the first time. Thanks for explaining, I get it. JR

[John Ranta]

There must be something more that I am missing. I re-rendered the original football video in Vegas Pro, but I rendered only the 1st half of the game. The resulting rendered mpg file is only 650 mbytes, which should easily fit on a DVD (the original file of the entire game was 2.4 gbytes, which I would have thought would still fit on a DVD). When I go to burn this 1st half movie as a Single Movie in DVDA, it still renders it. What else am I missing?

I’ve been using Vegas for many years, but I am new to DVDA. Is there a guide somewhere on how to avoid this rendering process in DVDA? What would be even more valuable to me, since both of these products are Sony products, would be a way to render & burn the DVD out of Vegas, as a single process.

Thanks in advance!!! JR

[Allen Zagel]

Hi
Are you rendering to DVDA-Mpeg2 or just an MPEG-2? That may be your problem.
Allen

ASX Media Group, Inc.
http://www.asxvideo.com
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[John Ranta]

I think I discovered what I was doing wrong. When rendering in Vegas I used the Default template, not the NTSC template. This apparently is not acceptable to DVDA. I re-rendered my video using the NTSC template, and DVDA skipped the rendering process (except for the audio, but I’ll work on that). Yay!

Thanks to all who replied, this is a very helpful forum. I only wish I had spelled “Architect” properly in my header.

[Mike Kujbida]

John, my apologies for neglecting to mention that you should use that particular template.
I’m glad to hear that you got it figured out.

Here’s another suggestion for you.
Render to AC-3 for your audio, give files the same surname (i.e. myvideo.mpg and myvideo.ac3) and put them both in the same folder.
Then, when you load the video file into DVDA, the audio file will automatically follow.